Fascination with motherhood is at an all-time high. Why is so much of the discussion around mothering about choice and agency, when women's reproductive rights are vulnerable and the pro-choice movement is on the defensive? This book addresses these cultural contradictions in personal essays, analysis, fiction, and artwork.

A collection of race and gender writings. It includes Alice Walker's elucidation of the term 'womanist', discussions of women's rights as human rights, and a piece on the Obama factor. It speaks to the ways that feminism has evolved and how black women have confronted racism within it.

Exposes the truths and consequences of women on the edges of society - women driven to kill. This book offers an introduction by the author that illuminates the conditions for women who kill - and are killed.

A novel that paints a picture of life in what is now North Korea through the eyes of Sonbi, her rustic childhood neighbor, Ch'otchae, and a restless law student, Sinch'ol, as they journey separately from a small, impoverished village ruled by the lecherous and baron to the port city of Inch'on.

This is a bilingual anthology of over 100 poems by 45 Dutch and Flemish women poets. It includes poems by both well-known and rediscovered poets, many available in English for the first time. The poems are presented in their original language, with English translation on opposite pages.

Analysing feudalism in Europe and Japan and European expropriation of lands and peoples across the globe, the author poses a question: how and why did women, with no power or independence, nourish and preserve the family unit and their own culture? It presents women's history: spanning from Europe to Japan, from the 5th century to the eighteenth.

A reference guide to the beginnings of women's history. It synthesises women's history from our pre-historical roots through the rise of states across the globe to the onset of state-backed religions.

This book brings together over 120 selections by women in six countries of southern Africa, in English and in translation from over 20 different languages, ranging from wedding songs and work songs to letters, prison diaries, poetry, memoirs, and recent testimony before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The famous are here (Doris Lessing, Sindiwe Magona, and more), but most of ..

Presents two stories Old Mrs Harris and A Simple Heart which explore the ways in which families treat their ageing members, the harsh impatience of the young, and the patient compassion of women who make their family's everyday lives possible.

An autobiographical novel that describes Agnes Smedley's first 33 years, growing up in a mixed-race family on the wrong side of the tracks, teaching at fifteen, going to college at Berkeley, discovering double standards of race, class, and gender there and among East Coast intellectuals, and surviving two tormented marriages.

Explores two tales The Old Maid and The Real Thing .

It is the late 1960s in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Grateful Dead is playing on radio and teenagers are wearing long hair and blue jeans. Jess Leighton, the daughter of a temperamental painter and a proto-feminist Harvard professor, is struggling to make sense of her world amid racial tensions, Vietnam War protests, and anti-government rage.

Tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child. Forced to live in an attic where the walls are covered in a sickly yellow wallpaper, she does what she has to do, she writes. Slowly but surely the tortuous pattern of the paper weaves itself into her mind. From the author of HERLAND.

Explains the author's first years of forced exile from her beloved country about the time of her incarceration, the agonising loss of comrades to torture and death in prison, the haunted quality of life so far away from home and family, and the ways in which memory conspires to make us forget what sometimes is most dear to us.

Berta watches as her lover, Atilio, a union organizer, is thrown from a window to his death on the pavement below. The next day, Colonel Jorge Rafael Videla stages a coup d'etat and a military dictatorship takes control of Argentina. Though never a part of Atilio's union efforts, Berta is on a list to be 'disappeared' and flees to the countryside.

Berta watches as her lover, Atilio, a union organizer, is thrown from a window to his death on the pavement below. The next day, Colonel Jorge Rafael Videla stages a coup d'etat and a military dictatorship takes control of Argentina. Though never a part of Atilio's union efforts, Berta is on a list to be 'disappeared' and flees to the countryside.

Exploring the truths and realities behind women's lives, this novel shows how the women's movement changed the lives of women and men. Set in the Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts, it is a group portrait of four disparate women who forge life-altering friendships despite personalities that vary as greatly as their vocations and ages.

Talks about the differences in the stories of Tolstoy and Olsen. This book states that the narrative employed by Tolstoy is linear and realistically detailed, while the style of Olsen's story, set in the US about a century later, is allusive, moving in psychological time, from the senses, voices, and scenes in the present to memories of the past.